everything she says her parents. why would you tell the winds are t.v. is it's two young sisters who have been reunited with their family in russia after they were radicalized parents took them to iraq. a small right wing wacko rally in berkeley california is swarmed by much larger counter-demonstration. and in the top stories of the week the wrong key on the recap just what i saw as last strongholds for the victory comes at a heavy price for civilians.

who are watching r t international with me rose on a low could live from moscow thank you for joining us. five children from southern russia who were stranded in the wrong have been reunited with their families it's believed the youngsters were taken to iraq by their parents who were being killed while fighting for i still film the children in a baghdad orphanage and we've also been helping to find their other relatives in russia among the five all two sisters had teacher and fatima. i know never mom or dad age. so. one of them could i said i've heard her. third say.

i still. think that damn thing a. teaser roselyn in my travel to southern russia to see how the pair adapting to life back home tears of joy in relief the very evident at the plane carrying five children from iraq landed in grozny but for the families waiting their stories and balloons there was also the question how to help these children some to some the maillot see through witness of the horrors of i still the loss of their parents and being left all alone to bug out over that.

for the little sisters had vision and foot sima base is another thing of the past here is then your home and their family has a great to share their first day together with us the girls found the perfect remedy in their grandfather plenty of sweets and friends to play with. this is her deja and she's clearly the leads of the pack it seems to grueling experience of football's own has made her even stronger for team zero six comfort in the arms of her granddad who seems just too afraid to part with her again even for a moment it looks like the perfect family image a house filled with children's laughter cries plenty of noise and fussing about it takes a while to realize what's missing and. she saw everything but she says her parents are alive why would i tell her otherwise. and yet even with all the love and care but has to offer his granddaughters there are still many wounds left on here. today and as i think of the three days without

food or water in a dusty dirty basement she told me when there were bombs they would go to basement and when she sees a helicopter now she's terrified and i tell her not to be afraid you know what i was opening an ice cream the other day and i have a habit of opening the wrapper popping it i did once and she jumped as if she'd had an explosion. you. know. conflict is the creation of adults but it's often children who pay the heaviest price while hundreds even thousands of youngsters who remain trapped and lost in what appears to be the ruins of a self-proclaimed caliphate had seizures and that seemed along with a few lucky ones who escaped well now hopefully learn how to be happy children among the other children returning to their families this week was nine year old

marian she was injured and very fragile when taken in by the orphanage in baghdad another in the early whose aunt was among the first to contact us he's only three years old just like still turn more ad who can see hear his relatives say he's already we're just going to everyday life at home. now to berkeley in california were right wing pro trump mansions led to a tense stand off the activists were vastly outnumbered by a so-called rally a against hate. i'd be. happy to. take a. five very happy i am happy for here how the side of course the civic center in downtown berkeley california as you can see around me there's a huge crowd of people calling themselves anti fascist protesters these are people that assemble to calendar a right wing rally that was called the for today for this after now out of the

slogan say no to marxism well these are both here that object out to a number of the people involved with that recorded right wing rally are considered to be white supremacy and fascism assembled to denounce it especially in the aftermath of charlottesville so it's quite in the first crowd that is assembled here in front of the civic center what an interesting group of folks as you can see behind me here we have those folks that are generally referred to as the black bloc you know they've got goggles on now they're covered in black masks sometimes come in an arc is a grouping we've got other people here all with different marxist groups are talking about socialism and communism while we have a lot of people sign to say things like say no to hate the city of berkeley and actually rallied around the slogan for a living i did against a that's been hanging from all the public buildings in the late in the stores around the city that we've heard so far about three arrests and two people were arrested for having mass to their faces as we can see that a lot of us have. but there were two people who were arrested for having massive their faces and there was an additional individual who was a far right a star was arrested for getting into some kind of scuffle and his call to patients

with by the left wing protesters he has been arrested now there's a number of police on the scene of the civic center was blocked off earlier they were searching anyone who came in to make sure that they didn't have any weapons of any kind this is just one illustration of the ongoing division that continues to take place across the united states now recently there was the incident in charlottesville in our family charlottesville there was there was a rally in support of the confederate monument are called by some white nationalists and there was a huge counter protest to that as well and then one. the one of the right wingers drove his car plowed his car in front protesters actually killed one person and nineteen other people were injured in the aftermath of that and donald trump are very famously condemn violence on both sides sparking anger and as you can see out here in the streets of berkeley many people are outraged about donald trump linking donald trump and his supporters directly to white supremacist the protest in berkeley was the latest in a wave of unrest since the tragic events in charlottesville on august twelfth one

woman was killed in one thousand injured when a far right extremist drive his car into a crowd of anti-fascist demonstrates is a member of the libertarian national committee told us finance is being normalized across america a lot of the normalized violence that we're seeing is happening because even at the government level we're seeing situations with the government settles its disputes with violence that there's a dispute with the islamic world is settling it with violence if there's a dispute with drugs they settle that with violence and that example needs to change so one possibility will be a wholesale rejection of violence at the personal level and at the governmental level and that would be an incredible opportunity for american growth but the other possibility is an increasing cycle of violence where violence is normalize or becomes more and more part of our politics and violent politics is a rejection of everything american stands for is that we're able to settle our dispute with out violence it is one of the things that has set america part since

our founding and to see that going in this direction to me is just heartbreaking i want to see it stop. the rocky military says it has retaken telephone one of the last islamic state strongholds in the country but the u.s. backed offensive has come at a heavy price for civilians. the operation began a week ago and i feel militants have dropped back from california but they still hold nearby territory neurotic s.d.f. reports the recaptured town. we're at the airport of telephone mia five kilometers from the city itself where the operation to liberate the elephant is underway this actually serves as a sort of said cold base serving the entire operation and soldiers from the front

lines they come here to rest and to eat before heading back there exultant they say that the operation is almost over they've actually even got a message for isis. i have a massive leave they are world now you have no place here will hunt you down wherever you are there jubilation however is a stark odds with what the people of talent have gone through what it was miserable we were under occupation imagine that and you know they turned the mosques into prisons there were thirty to forty people there we don't know what happened to them they demanded that molests recruited young people to join i sew and when they refused they locked them up there was no interest in no food nothing to eat we were almost dying there was no work and no man to sing my kidneys have almost failed it's been three years without medicine or anything tens of thousands of iraqi soldiers will mobilized for this operation the u.s.

led coalition has brought to bear its full mice its people fleeing from telephone more than thirty thousand have escaped from the city escaped from the fighting they had to brave walking through the you've been deserts which is all there is here for ten twenty hours to get to to safety. find water to find food medicine medical supplies and indeed treatment and from what we've heard many of them didn't make it but the commander of the operation he spoke to us and he said they expect to be done in another four days. everyone thought deliberation would be difficult and we would be two months the deliberations room is complete another interesting development that we've learned of is that on the twenty fifth of august four hundred families of isis fighters were let out of the city the details are murky and nobody knows exactly what happened but the commander of the operation and he

previously was the chief of the mosul operation he told us that indeed this had happened he confirmed it but again without details and what about the four hundred families that escaped that escaped. did you fail to catch them and did you let them do for humanitarian reasons. we have a system we handed over to the iraqi government and they handled still the battle and telephone is far from over from what the soldiers tell us most of the civilians have managed to get out and managed to flee nevertheless there are still thousands of people trapped in a shrinking area where isis still holds sway and where they still haven't been defeated and they have a terrifying few days ahead of them. the operation bear some striking similarities with the recent campaign in nearby mosul which left thousands dead the two cities where i saw strongholds besieged by u.s.

banked iraqi forces thousands of civilians were trapped inside both taliban and mosul under constant bombardment and many of those who tried to flee were killed in the crossfire while those who remained quickly ran out of basic supplies and regions have been moving forward of course we see that there are a lot of others have been of course the people in need similar consequences to what to look for nothing different on the love food water and is that the ease that people who are leaving deal with lehman you know then. nine while being shot. people in pakistan have been denouncing donald trump after accuse the country of harboring terrorists crowds took to the streets of karachi on sunday chanting death to america and try to make their way to the u.s. consulate islamabad earlier rejected trump's allegation saying no country in the world has suffered more than pakistan from the scourge of terrorism the statement

went on to describe washington stance as disappointing as it ignores the enormous sacrifices made by the pakistani nation the u.s. president's rebuke of pakistan came as he announced his new strategy for afghanistan and it marked a complete reversal of his pre-election promise. we will also expand authority for american armed forces to target the terrorist and criminal networks afghanistan is a total and complete disaster let's get with it get out of afghanistan although his administration hinted at the boost in chief numbers in afghanistan trump so as to keep exact biggest secret and he called on nato allies to make a greater contribution in afghanistan the president's new plan provides no time frame for withdrawal we also people enough to understand what they think about the u.s. military presence. you could on american and afghan forces carry out operations at

night sometimes their intelligence reports are inaccurate civilians including women and children get killed. there was a doctor is a horse so who is hit by a drone strike and another man was on his way home when he was killed. during a u.s. operation into the house and. they shot him dead later they said they had killed a taliban fine before they left they blew up the entire building when we spoke to former u.s. presidential candidate wrong poll he told us the american military presence in afghanistan is likely to continue for many years to come. changes the words and makes it sound like the world will come apart if we don't continue to be the world's policeman he says he's not into nation building but there was a pretense anyway how many nations that we can really build or improve we've torn nations apart so he is seen as a flip flopper which i think politically is

a bad position to be. going to be perpetual war nobody knows exactly who the enemy is and nobody will know when it is ended but i think trump has been maybe a little bit more upfront that his goal isn't to get done in six months or a year it looks like he's planning to be there for the long term. the syrian army backed by russian and cover has destroyed one of the most active islamic states units in syria some eight hundred militants were killed in the operation in the for eighty's finally a large number of heavy machine guns were also destroyed along with tanks and all tillery according to the russian defense ministry and it's all possible why the push to break a blockade of the key city if there is or the battle took place near this village it's about ninety kilometers from there is still one of the terrorists' last strongholds in the country the syrian army is advancing on multiple fronts to lift

a three year long siege that middle east correspondent paula has the latest. it is very significant basically the taking of the year as old would point to the strategic defeat of islamic state in syria it follows weeks of fighting between the syrian army that is being assisted by the russian air force and islamic state and in the past few weeks we have witnessed and number of breakthroughs that the syrian army is making against the terrorist organization. when it was. still in the. area.

now there is or is a city that islamic states has completely surrounded for the better part of three yos there's only a small part of the city that is in the hands of the syrian army and they're completely blockaded there's no way in there's no way out and that's the reality for also for residents of the city if you can just imagine that this is a city that is home to some one hundred thousand people and for the last three years this has been their reality they are going to go about their work there was. a lot of them feel no one would like to come out. first of course having to do you know much. for the journey that any of or any any i mean if islamic state was able to be defeated here it would be a major significant achievement by the syrian army because essentially islamic state finds his would be cut off from any kind of other military forces and also

from major financial resources and sources for them and so it would see. the final chapter of islamic state in syria. half a million people attended a peace rally in barcelona on saturday evening marchers held banners with a message i am not afraid in reference to the terrorist attack earlier this month the claim sixteen lives the probe into the atrocity has been focusing on the small town of riposte where the terrorist cell was based peter all of the trouble before r.t. . radicalizing force they were radicalized by a moroccan born police now believe the report was it the same sort of the plot. this small spanish town took away in the foothills of the pyrenees is hardly what you think of as a hotbed of islamic terrorism but it was here in the fall that the terrorist cell which attacked barcelona recruited were indoctrinated and radicalized eventually

going on to carry out their deadly mission. but it was here that the terrorists that rammed his truck into crowds of people. lived. the twenty two year old moroccan was gunned down on monday following eight four day manhunt by authorities. why the. local people here say they can't believe he lived within a community. that played football together on the beach nearby with other kids from the neighborhood they were brought up here. of course. they were

behind what happened around here can believe it this seemed to be very nice people will. be. roaming. the. saloon with a whole slew of things that the cell melted into society attending the local high school and being a fixture on local football fields so how did say seemingly quiet group of quiet teenage is quiet town and is part of a jihad to sell. the answers to the vast many looking towards the mosque that they attended it's here that they're understood to have attended prayers led by our society who's been accused of being the. the master behind these terrorists is so it is pointed the finger at him and now that's being reiterated by some of those accused of being part of the. have appeared in court but who will.

see what do we know about the. moroccan national we know that he had a criminal past in front back in twenty ten he was sent to prison here in spain for his part in a drug smuggling operation and it's in jail where he is understood to have become radicalized in fact he's believed to have spent time with those who plotted and carried out the madrid bombings we also know that back in twenty sixteen he spent time in belgium around the time of the bombings on the metro the airports in brussels. he is believed to have been killed it was announced by authorities that his d.n.a. was found at the site of a bomb making factory did exploded in at the moment the authorities are writing bad off as that his own potential weapons of death course him out in the end.

as the investigation continues arrests continue to be made including that of the owner of an internet cafe that suspected members of the terrorist cell and no into a frequent it begs the question just how many small tranquil communities like this could potentially be harboring fatal terrorist cells peter all of. these all the twelve suspected members of the terror cell that came from ripon all of believed to be from the moroccan community and are all of a similar age they all this was twenty two and the youngest just seventeen radicalized teenagers of course not a new phenomenon last year a sixteen year old syrian boy was arrested on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack in the. city of cologne and in paris a fifteen year old boy was arrested on suspicion of planning a separate topic jennifer braden an attorney specializing in religious terrorism told us the constant threats of extremism poses

a direct challenge to civil liberties in europe some of the leaders and other european countries have said that we just need to quote unquote get used to the fact that this is part of our lives and it's very sad to see that in a continent such as europe which has had so many freedoms has such diversity of different people and has allowed those freedoms it is sad to see that people are now no longer surprised again this is a lot of backtracking they're having to go against major national or european union policies which state that you know they shouldn't do much they should look at religion they should look at other things and they certainly shouldn't police the streets. hurricane hall v. is causing devastation in the u.s. state of texas with at least five people killed and dozens missing it's the most powerful storm to hit the u.s. mainland in some twelve years the state governor has described the flood as the worst texas has ever experienced with one point three meters of rainfall expected

three hundred thousand people have been left without electricity and more than two hundred fifty highways across the state have been shut down a massive search and rescue operation is now underway. i'll be back with more of the stories that shape global news of the past seven days in around half an hour's time join us then if you can. i. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us actually just pull on

. the only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same. apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of love back to the night president of the world bank so take. me seriously send us an e-mail. coin saul's for trust it's a mathematical formula that solves for think about all the institutions in your life that require trust you trust people on the road are going to be not crashing into you you trust that the doctor is professional and you trust the hospital is working in a trust third parties all day long but the point is the first international currency it doesn't require trust it just requires consensus to buy into every ten minutes the protocol and why would you not be buying into the protocol if you're getting fabulously wealthy or watching central banks collapse i like about wealth

comes and goes and watching central banks crawl into their. cry that's why i like. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered. is an american inspired attack on north korea inevitable one certainly gets that impression listening to washington's war hawks and there stood in the corporate liberal media is north korea a growing military threat of course it is but it is also under threat is there still time for diplomacy.

across talking north korea i'm joined by my guest when one in washington is the chief political correspondent at c. g. t. n. america in boston we have paul atwood he is a professor emeritus of american studies at the university of massachusetts and author of war and empire the american way of life and in beirut we cross the logic he is a philosopher novelist filmmaker and investigative journalist or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but i always appreciate it ok weighing in washington let me go to you first here let me read a few quotes here says china could easily solve this problem meaning the north korean problem that unfortunate character the u.s. has at the united nations that nikki haley says time for talk is over before we get to how the u.s. and its allies look at north korea can you explain to us how the north koreans see their dilemma of d. threatening western powers and their neighbor to the south. well peter let's not

forget the north korean issue was largely issue resulted from the cold war i mean the cold war largely waged by president harry truman based on and c sixty eight document largely about the perception of soviet fear rather than the factual assertions about soviet fear and then of course the invaded the north korea the korean peninsula which was one country throughout much of history up until the second world war it was one country one people one culture but then unfortunately the war happened and twenty percent of the north korean population were wiped out of this earth thanks largely due to the u.s. invasion so the memory of history is still fresh and currently the north koreans have. i'm not defending the north koreans but they do have legitimate security concerns you know one hundred sixty thousand u.s. troops stationed across western pacific the cold war architecture forty.